Mitakihara Original

Category: Intermission IV

  • 5 — The Exile

    The sign had just gone up. “New Eden”. It shimmered in the morose mid December sky. Tacky, even by Yui’s tastes. But she wasn’t relenting. This had to symbolize a part of the Paradise that Yui had stolen for herself. For some reason, Aoi had decided to stay, even with Yui in no condition to…

  • 4 — The Goodbye

    Forty-eight hours ago, the warehouses along Mitakihara’s pier were full of people, used as bargaining chips to  keep the city locked down. Now, they were full of people, members of the JSDF fluttering about, trying to organize the reconstruction alongside civilian crews. A path had cleared from the main road to a helicopter, two soldiers…

  • 3 — The Reconciliation

    Yuzuki nervously darts around her dorm, taking out garbage, spraying and cleaning every surface, vacuuming, making her bed, even pushing the furniture around– all in preparation for Toi’s arrival that they had arranged. A window broken in the riots threatened to spoil the whole thing regardless, but she swept up all the glass and thoroughly…

  • 2 — The Homecoming

    The late November sky was just as much a prison of lifeless grey as it was the day before. The day when the sky itself fell, and the last tears shed from it fell onto Mitakihara’s crumbled foundation. One building in the residential district somehow resisted the latest of Mitakihara’s storms. Resisted, though it did…

  • 1 — The Healing

    The late November sky was just as much a prison of lifeless grey as it was the day before. The day when the sky itself fell, and the latest fire licking at Mitakihara’s foundation faded. Embers remained, however, and it would take time to extinguish them. Scars would undoubtedly mar this city for a generation.…